Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:15:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Millman
Subject: Re: (urth) Nacre glosses the hits
mantis,
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, mantis (Michael
Andre-Driussi) wrote:
> Nacre wrote:
>
> > Lord of the Land Lovecraft's Legacy, BNH #2
> >
> > There's another typo here--mantis means YBH #2.
>
> No, UME gives it as BEST NEW HORROR 2. Is that incor-
> rect? Tell me, tell Phil.
This one's my mistake; since the key at the bottom of the
list has _Year's Best Horror_ and not _Best New Horror_,
I just assumed BNH was a typo. On checking, _Best New
Horror_ is correct. Sorry, mantis.
> My understanding is that Bryan Cholfin =bought= the re-
> maining copies of EF&F as pre-requisite to publishing
> the "everyman" edition. (Yeah, I know, I know: "Think
> of it as an =investment=.")
>
> That was in, what, 1992?
Cheap Street, and their sister business, 20th Century
First Editions, still list copies of _Empire_, so at the
very least, Cholfin's copies made it back into the sec-
ondary market. The same seems to be the case with _Bib-
liomen_, too. (The least expensive versions, as far as I
can tell, are the studio samples from Cheap Street--both
titles are $85 a copy in that state.)
> It seems impossible these days to do any small press
> Wolfe book. The barriers are real, and quite solid.
> I have tried, Nick Gevers has tried, there must be
> others reading this who have tried. Such things have
> been done in the past by Ziesing, Nesfa, and United
> Mythologies, but they aren't doing them now. Then
> again, new small press folk are self-generating all the
> time, so it could happen. As much as I wish it would,
> I really, really doubt it.
I'm interested; what are those barriers? Please reply
off-line if you think this is beyond the interest of the
rest of the list.
> > I'm very fond of "The Monday
> > Man", which is one of the
> > first-person character stories;
> > it's set in the Depression, and
> > is about role reversal.
>
> I thought this was the one where the policeman is tell-
> ing the story and the role-reversal was between . . .
> well, I don't want to give it away. But while it is
> set in mundane USA, it has a link to the Presence Cham-
> ber of Urth. IRRC, and I'm probably mixing it up some-
> thing horrible.
>
> =mantis=
I don't remember any Urth reference in "The Monday Man",
and I don't think that would have been sporting of Wolfe
to have done. But we shouldn't get so worked up over it
that we try to string up one another.
Nacre
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